The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
TEMPERANCE.
Truthful Jineles.

1ruCn1ul J1ngIeS. -r
As one and one make always two.
So those who drink are sure to rus,
As two and two make always four.
So surely one glass leads to more :;
As three and three are always six,
As surely drink is spoiled by Sticks"
As sure as four and four make eight,
VIII rum bring trouble soon or Late.
As five and five are always ten,
SO surely drink makes drunken men.
-Edward CarsareH. in Temperance Banner.
Beer in the National Soldiers Home.
A member of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, who has visited the
National Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio,
writes:
"You ask me if there is any truth in
the statement made in the slip you sent
me in regard to the beer saloon in the
Homcl Yes, it is all true; but the half
has not been told. The saloon was first
opened on the 18th day of last July, and
has been running successfully ever since.
1t is opened every day, except Sunday,
from eight o'clock in the morning until
five in the evening. 1t is in q large
building, fully $50 feet long by thirty
feet wide; it has counter running
through the entire length, which is fitted
upwith all the appliances of an ordinary
saloon. Twenty or thirty clerks and
walters are in attendance. A board par
tition runs along the entire length of the
room, and behind this partition the beer
barrels are arranged at every few feet
with faucets leading from them into the
room. This place is crowded from the
time it opens until it closes. The clerks
are all kept busy as they can possibly be
drawing and handing out the beer. There
is steady stream of the old vets going
and coming all day. From twenty to
thirty barrels (not kegs, but large barrels}
of beer are sold every day. The thirst Of
the old heroes is wonderful; they drink
and drink, and still call.for more. It is
sold to them at five cents a glass; the
glasses are very large-real schooners.
The beer is much stronger, or in some
way different from any beer we getat any
other place. A brewery at Cincinnati
has the contract for furnishing it, and it
is saidto be made especially for the Home,
and is different from other beer. The
old vets get bowling drunk on it. It is
disgrace to the State and the nation"
An Appeal to Liquor Sellers.
An address has been sent to brew
ers, distillers, rectifers, wholesale deal
ers and saloen-keepers by the officers
of the National W. G. T. o. It is
most kindly throughout, and appeals
to them as brothers to give up their
nefarious business. 1t says: "We be
Ieve indeed that your own mental
vision is dimmed, and the voice
of conscience in your breasts is deadened
by alcoholic poison. Lifted out of the
smoke and fumes of your present environ
ment we believe your perception of the
relation which your business holds to the
interests of the homes and the citizenship
of the Republic would so appal you that all
of you, who are not hopelessly dwarfed
by greed of gain, would flee the traffic in
alcoholic poisons as you would the pesti-
lence. Whatever you favor We must con-
demn, and steadfastly antagonize your
principle of license-wherever we en-
counter it-by the principle of prohibit
tion. Brothe.s, the end is near; the
doom of the liquor traffic is sealed; the
clock of God has struck the hour of the
peoples deliverance. Will you not come
with us in the great fight fora clear brain
a protected home? Will you not, of free
choice, do that'which must ere long be
done under compulsion of the vox populi,
which echoes the vox Dei2 For this we
earnestly ask, for this we will fervently
pray"
Railroads as Temperance Allies.
The managers of railways are becom-
inc. from economic considerations chief
ly, important allies of the temperance re-
form. Commenting thereon the Amers-
can, of this city, says: "The railway
managers of the country are proving to
be most efficient, because the most prac-
tical, of temperance rcformers. Many OF
them have prohibited the employment OF
men for train service or in other response
bic positions who use liquor in any form.
Now they are beginning to prohibit the
sale of liquor on grounds owned by their
railroads. President Robert Harris, OF
the Northern Pacific, has lately issueda an
order prohibiting the sale of liquor on
any property controlled by that compa-
n.y." By and by these railway managers,
many of whom, presumably, are not now
total abstainers, it may be hoped will see
it their duty to become such, and to help
more than hitherto to promote the needed
total-abstinence propagandism and the
crusade against alcoholic drinking and
the drink traffic. Railway investments
will improve in value as the drink peril
Is banished from the community at large.
.-zlational Temperance Adcocate.